This collection of documents continues the Ashbrook Center’s extended series of document collections covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. It is the second volume in the religion in American history and politics series, one of the subsets within the overall Ashbrook collection. Given the centrality of religion in American history, these ideas and conflicts were also core elements of that broader history. This volume looks at one dimension of American religious history: the words and deeds of American religious women. It shows how at every stage of American history they were present, testifying and working, even as the importance of their work was often unacknowledged. Indeed, one of the most powerful themes of the collection is faithful perseverance in the face of opposition, and the power of such perseverance to move mountains.